Landscape dynamics in tropical Andean ecosystems in response to natural and anthropogenic disturbances

Abstract:

Tropical Andean landscapes are biogeographically very diverse: they have strong environmental gradients with rapid changes in geomorphology, geology and soils, climate and biota over short distances. Their headwater basins function as important regulators of water, sediment and nutrient supply to the Amazon basin. Anthropogenic activities have increasingly transformed the tropical Andean ecosystems into a patchwork of agricultural plots, urban and rural centres, forest plantations, and remnants of native forests and grasslands. In this talk, we will present two Andean landscapes at the edge, that are rapidly changing under the influence of land use and climate change. In each of them, we will highlight the dynamic interactions of biota and humans with earth surface processes.

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2019

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